Real-time automations

Independent expert advising Online Gaming Groups and Venture Capital companies • Support Online Gaming Group and Venture Capital companies in assessing potential investment targets • Acting as interim manager to lead strategic transformations

Commercial accountability for the company’s sportsbetting P&L with EUR 4-5bn turnover, EUR 450m revenues and a marketing budget of approximately EUR 100m per annum.Directly managed the directors for Sports IT, Trading, Product and Marketing as well as the Section Heads for Business Intelligence, R&D, Content and Risk. The role comprised oranizational responsibility for managing the following divisions:- Marketing and CRM- Product and IT (globally dislocated in 5 development centres)- Trading & Risk Management - Content & Program Management (structured into JV’s)- Business Intelligence & Controlling- R&D and Innovation Lab for Sportbetting- B2B Businesses JVsChallenges & Results: The commercial optimization of the company's 12 sport labels, necessitated a strategic transition from:- Pure B2C to B2C & B2B orientation- .com to nationally regulated markets - Web focus to touch & click centric- Manual to highly automated, algorithm based operations (+40 sports)- Single monolithic platform to multi-platform integration capability- Scattered to seamless customer experience for ease of use and fuelling cross selling- From house-to-customer communication to social - Time deferred to real time CRM and risk management - Conventional BI to real time decision support- Directing various major system migrations/integrations as well as market entries and closures- Overseeing various cost cutting and performance enhancement initiatives- Overseeing the consolidation from 6 to 3 global sport IT development centers

Commercially accountable for the company’s sportsbetting P&L, the strategic positioning of the company's sportbetting product and the commercial success of various sports betting labels/channels.Organizational responsibility and leadership span ranging from the general management of bwin International Ltd., as the operative sportbetting arm of the group, to the remote management of the main functional divisions for Sports Product Development, IT and Marketing as well as section for Business Intelligence, R&D, Content and Risk. The Gibraltar based corporation provided trading, risk, content and customer services for daily operations of various bwin sport labels. The remote managerial responsibility for functional divisions comprised the long term strategic positioning and the overseeing of tactical execution of plans.